WIP discord bot using discord.py.

PCBOT is only supported by python version 3.5.0 and newer.

For those who have arrived from BotéMon and wish to contribute/have a look/access the resources, the libraries used are found in plugins/pokedex.py and plugins/pokedexlib/!

Currently, BotéMon is the only version of PCBOT I host for public use. If you wish to add the bot to your server, check its bots.discord.pw entry!

Before installing the bot, you must make sure you're running python 3.5.0+

$ python -V
Python 3.5.2

The next step is installing the latest version of discord.py:

python -m pip install discord.py --update

To install the bot, one can clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/PcBoy111/PCBOT.git

This is the best way to install as the bot is actively in development. If you want to update the bot using git, run git pull and either restart the bot or reload the updated plugins.

If you do not care about updates, you can download the repo as ZIP.

Several plugins require additional modules. These modules are not required unless you want a specific plugin to work. Some features and modules are only supported if you're using Linux. The bot will prompt errors when modules are missing, although modules as of now are:

Running the bot is simple. Go to the root directory and run bot.py:

python bot.py

You should get a prompt asking for your bot token. One can also use the --token / -t argument, in for instance a bash script:

#!bin/sh
python bot.py -t TOKEN

If you want to login to a regular account, use the --email / -e argument like so:

python bot.py -e EMAIL

The bot will prompt for a password the first time you login with an email.

For more command-line arguments, execute python bot.py -h.

The command prefix is bot specific, which means that servers can't set a custom command prefix. To change the bot prefix, head over to config/bot-meta.json. The prefix can be any number of characters.

PCBOT has a dedicated info command, by default !pcbot, which displays info such as the name, owner, uptime, servers and the bot application description. To change the name of the command to suit your bot name, change the "name" key in config/bot-meta.json. This name should avoid any non-alphanumeric characters, although you are free to include spaces in the name.

The info command will be named after this name, as lowercase and without any spaces.

After running the bot for the first time, you want to make sure you're assigned the owner account. This process is very straight-forward and requires that you have access to the bot log, and can respond to the bot within 60 seconds of reading the log (By default, the log is printed to the terminal).

The first step is to send the command !setowner in a private message. The bot will wait for a response matching the 3-digit code logged to the console. The logged message looks something like this:

CRITICAL [bot] 2016-04-24 23:03:49,138: Owner code for assignment: 263

After sending the code in a private message, in this case 263, your account will be registered as the bot owner.

PCBOT has a folder based plugin system. If you wish to make a plugin, check out pcbot/builtin.py. There are more features than showcased in the builtin plugin, however there is no documentation for them yet.

To remove an unwanted plugin from the bot, simply remove it from the plugins/ folder. You are also free to remove any accompanying library folder. Keep in mind they will be re-added when updating the bot using git.

The owner can manage plugins with the !plugin command. See !help plugin for more information.

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